The Hunter becomes the hunted

People..

After my last post glorifying my superiority over the wild creatures I have been targeted. Mother nature herself has sent a wraith to haunt me.

Climbing into bed last night, I was alarmed to see a shadow detach itself from my pillow and dart silently toward the dark, before I could react, like smoke it had gone...but I knew that it waited, I knew what it wanted.

I really hate mozzies

Especially the ones that target you when you have made the all too reasonable decision a lazy person must make...and not bother with the complicated array of anti-malaria pills I have been given.

Needless to say the critter struck a few times before its luck ran out at 2343hrs last night when is cannoned off my computer screen, was monetarily disorientated and then melded - for ever, into the soft pixels....

It struck gold in a vein behind my knee (aiming to disable me), I am stronger than that but I can only hope it was firing blanks - in a tropically deadly disease manner of speaking...

Like I said, I have been issued with a vast array of anti-malarial drugs, but being a lazy realist I decided early on that attempting to keep track of my intake would be an exercise in futility...I am as ever a hostage to fortune...

This is what could be coursing through my veins....


Yes, bad I know, noone needs that sort of thing wandering around the corridors of your body..

You think that is bad however, take a look at the Mozzie like creature currently buzzing around the corridors of power in London..


looks like a mozzie, acts like a mozzie...

actually a muppet....

Sometines you have to take nature on

Sometimes you have to take nature on, at a recent 'bird' demo in France I caught the eye of this.....I believe it is an American bald eagle, a quick appraisal by both species resulted in the conclusion that northern Continental Europe was only big enough for one of us.

It had on its side, a serious looking beak, claws like a screenshot from Jurassic Park and, as you can see, a sickening size - given its role as a high speed flying creature.

It came at me with some intent......

The result? Try checking its blog, or alternately check out my extremely comfy new down pillow...

Pah!

PS. It is not a yank bald actually...five pounds for a correct ID...